Film is a tool frequently used by teachers, but it is often limited to showing students how historical time periods looked like, or as a way for students to search for historical inaccuracies. The aim of this essay is to study whether it is possible to use two films based on the legend of Robin Hood as a way to teach students how to contextualize gender history. Through the use of film analysis and gender analysis of two different versions of Robin Hood, The adventures of Robin Hood and Robin Hood: Prince of thieves were analyzed. The study has shown that it is indeed possible to use film as a source material for the study of gender history, and that film can tell us a lot about the contemporary view of gender, masculinity and femininity. The didactical analysis concluded that there was no theoretical objection of using film as a source material; however, there are some things that a teacher should be aware of. Although film may be a good way to create a varied study environment and benefit students with reading- and writing disabilities, there is a risk that time-constraints and lack of knowledge of film and its methodology on, behalf of both teachers and students, may make it hard to implement.

Chronic illness is associated with conditions that may result in psychological ill-health in the adolescence. Consequently there is a need for development of preventive psychosocial support interventions for this target group. The objective was to develop, implement, and evaluate the effect of supportive intervention group program for teenagers suffering from chronic illness - aiming at increasing quality of life and supporting mental and physical health. Method: Six different intervention groups were conducted between 2007 and 2011, age 13?17.

Each time you pass a stand full of magazines it?s hard not to absorb the many exhortations that are being thrown at you. The range of different lifestyle magazines have more or less exploded during the last years. All magazines, each one trying to outmatch the other, want to help you improve to be the best you can.People get affected by their surroundings including what they see and what they read. Therefore we chose to do this study, as an opportunity to get a closer look on what the Swedish lifestyle magazines Cosmopolitan and Café tell us about women and men.

Denna uppsats syftar till att undersöka likheterna mellan den populära klassikern Alice's adventures in Wonderland och Berger och Luckmanns teori om verkligheten som en social konstruktion, samt Anthony Giddens modernitetsbegrepp. För att besvara mitt syfte på ett tydligare sätt har jag definierat och fokuserat på sex teman som återkommer i boken, i den tidigare forskningen och i teorierna, nämligen: vardagsverkligheten, identitet, rationalitet, tid, språk, samt ordning.Efter en genomgång av de teoretiska aspekter uppsatsen stödjer sig på har materialet analyserats med hjälp av en hermeneutisk cirkel; hur delarna ska tolkas har varit beroende av hur helheten tolkas och hur helheten tolkats har varit beroende av hur delarna tolkats. Uppmärksamhet vid återkommande beskrivningar som liknar varandra i betydelse har varit en viktig del av arbetet för att kunna ge en mer tillförlitlig helhetsförståelse. Resultatet av analysen visar att, även om det finns delar som kan tolkas annorlunda, så finns det starka likheter mellan boken och teorierna och boken kan förstås med dessa perspektiv. Med detta vill jag också peka framåt mot en meningsfull användning av kulturprodukter i fortsatt sociologisk forskning och undervisning..

The Internet is a constant source of information about the world and has contributed to the globalization of texts and pictures. A part in the tourists process of consumption involves looking at pictures and read about places that create an image of places that they have never been to. Websites are therefore important as a first impression and it is here that places are being represented. Places are created on the Internet and the Australian outback is an example of this. The study is interesting because it can be used to understand the relationship between people and places.

Every now and then, in media research studies and in various newspaper articles, schoolboys´ issues reading habits are discussed. Much of what is written concerns boys decreasing marks in the field of literature, in the Swedish language and also their negative attitude towards reading books. Some scholars claim that boys do not read because they consider reading books as a women´s duty. Other people believe that underlying causes for boys negative attitude towards reading is biological, that it´s genetic and consequently physical, and that male and female brains are functionally different. Another theory of today is that boys actually reads, but not that kind of texts and literature that they are exposed to in school.Based on a selection of these opinions and theories, and my own experience and interest for questions concerning school and gender, the aim of this studie was to examine boys worlds of reading.

This thesis is a queer masculinity reading of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?s short story collection The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894). The analysis focuses on the dissonances, tensions and queerness that reside within the text itself. This has been done from my problem statement: How is Sherlock Holmes and John Watson?s sexuality and masculinity portrayed within the boundary of the text? What is being said, what is hidden, and what is dealt with silently? To reveal these queer parts this analysis has been focused around five themes: the late Victorian male, the Woman, countertypes and decadence, the homosocial sphere and sexuality.

The purpose of this essay is to examine the consequences following an adaptation from literature to video game formatby comparing Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass with American McGee's Alice and,primarily, Alice: Madness Returns. In order to answer this, aspects of both game theory and literary critique are takeninto consideration, regarding for example the narrative potential of the game medium and the gameplay's possibleresemblance with Wolfgang Iser's theory of the reading process.The analysis shows in what ways the original narrative has been altered in order to fit its new medium. Some of thebooks' main ingredients are simply retold in the games' so called information spaces, i.e. text and video sequenceswhere the otherwise playable character is not controlled. Others, instead, have undergone a ludolization or ergodizationwhere the story events are experienced as playable elements in the games' action spaces.

De senaste fem decennierna har världens marknader förändrats drastiskt och utbudet har vuxit till attvara större än efterfrågan. Med en dylik förändring är det nödvändigt att profilera företagen ocherbjuda något unikt till kunderna. Låga priser är en vanlig taktik men pressar ner marginalerna sålångt att det endast är lönsamt vid höga volymer Vid denna typ av produktion är kalkylering avyttersta vikt. En annan är att erbjuda ett närmare samarbete samt att åta sig ansvar för en kundsräkning. Dessa tjänster möjliggör en stor valfrihet i specialisering och har visat sig leda till förbättradlönsamhet.Den grafiska industrin har en historia av produktion som primärt målet med investeringar ihögvolymproduktion varefter tekniken har tillåtit.